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American Red Cross Homeland
Security Advisory System Recommendations for Individuals,
Families, Neighborhoods, Schools, and Businesses
The White House issued
Homeland Security Directive-3, in March 2002, which
established five threat conditions for possible terrorist
attack:
Green = Low Blue = Guarded
Yellow =
Elevated Orange = High
Red = Severe
General explanations were
given for preparedness activities for each level, but these
were intended mainly for government agencies. Across the
country questions of “What does a condition ‘yellow’ mean to
me or my family? or What does this mean to a business or
school?” remained. The American Red Cross recognized the need
and developed a complementary set of guidelines for the
following areas  (pdf):
These files are in Portable
Document Format (.pdf) and require Adobe Acrobat®
Reader® which can be downloaded free from Adobe
Acrobat.
For
Additional Materials and Resources for Use with the Homeland
Security Advisory System and American Red Cross
Recommendations, Check Out Our Available Online
Materials
dealing with terrorism and unexpected
events.
Additional information can
be found at the web site for The Department of
Homeland Security.
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